Senior Manager Tech Ops Communications, Events & Change Management

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott 

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to: 

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of. 
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year. 
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution 
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree. 
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.  
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.  

The Opportunity

The Senior Manager provides communications support to the VP, Tech Ops, developing and executing communications strategy, providing superior communication products including speeches, correspondence and employee messages.  It has considerable interaction with senior executives who are the function's customers. Lends support to other Corp. Comm. functions (Employee Communications, Corporate Information) as necessary.  Implement the organization's internal communication strategy so that all employees can find, send, receive, and understand information that is timely, accurate, clear, credible and relevant. 

This role is responsible for establishing, leading, and scaling the change management capability across Tech Ops. Provides strategic oversight and hands-on leadership for change initiatives tied to portfolio execution, operating model evolution, process transformation, and organizational effectiveness. This role ensures that Tech Ops initiatives are successfully adopted and sustained through disciplined change practices aligned to a regulated, patient-critical environment. 

This position will be responsible for events that promote employee culture programs while partnering with VP, DVPs and Sr. Directors Tech Ops to develop communication objectives, strategies, tools and vehicles to showcase and promote employee culture in support of existing and/or new programs. 

What You'll Do

• Produces communications materials for the VP, Tech Ops and other executives in the Tech Ops organization, including speeches, correspondence and other vehicles. 
• Manages the logistics of the Tech Ops internal Communication program, including maintenance of the production calendar. 
• Contributes to Tech Ops Executive Communications, writing speeches and correspondence for senior executives. 
• Contributes written materials for Employee Communications and Corporate Information purposes. 
• Works with sensitive information and oversees high-visibility products and processes. 
• Work is primarily for the vice president, Tech Ops. 
• Has contact with a broad range of internal and external contacts, across levels. 
• Develop, publish and distribute a range of materials in traditional print form, electronically or through online technologies (for example, newsletters, brochures, handbooks, conference and seminar materials ), in order to communicate effectively with employees. 
• Represent the employee communication function on project teams so that other members of the organization are aware of the unit's activities and to share knowledge on effective employee communication. 
• Participate in external communication activities (e.g., public relations programs) where they impact employee communications. 
• Lead, direct, evaluate and develop a team of comm